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Strawberry Sponge

Pick the stems from one quart of strawberries, mash and mix one teacupful of powdered sugar with them. Put one teacupful of crushed loaf-sugar in a saucepan with one-half pint of water and boil it gently for twenty minutes, then mix with it one ounce of gelatine that has been soaked for two hours in a teacupful of water, and remove it from the fire at once, Pass the strawberries through a fine hair-sieve and mix them with the syrup. Stand the bowl containing the above mixture on ice, and beat it for five minutes, then add the whipped whites of four eggs and continue beating until the mixture begins to thicken. Turn the sponge out of the moulds onto fancy dishes, dust a little powdered sugar on the top, pour a little whipped cream round, and serve.